President Barack Obama successfully reassembled his diverse coalition of minority, women and youth voters to propel himself to a second White House term.
The victory yesterday came even as the electorate remains divided like two foreign lands, split between men and women, whites and minorities, rich and poor, young and old, exit polling showed.
The portrait of voters revealed in the national survey shows a politically, demographically, geographically and culturally separated nation. A stark illustration of that gap came among Hispanics, who overwhelmingly backed the president. [cont.]
John McCormick & Greg Giroux, Bloomberg